richardbrooks's Blog

What a long, strange trip it's been from newsprint to blog. It's almost like living in the 21st Century. Wait, it is the 21st Century.

I am Richard Brooks, the new Town Hall reporter for the new Bluffton Today. I've spent a long time in journalism starting in 1978 at the Clemson University student newspaper. Most of my career was at the Beaufort Gazette, where I was a reporter, copy editor, sports editor, news editor and weekend editor, among other duties.

Bluffton Today is a new Morris Communications product and it's supposed to be more than a daily newspaper.

The Rose Hill Plantation Equestrian Center was sunny and breezy on Sunday and hundreds turned out for the Equine Expo. Some of them even took a break from tailgaiting to watch the horses.

There wasn't nearly enough newspaper real estate for Monday's story in Bluffton Today, so here are some of the names that didn't get printed:

Christina Bates volunteered to help promote the Inaugural Hilton Head Equestrian Exposition. She is a member of Middleton Place Hounds, the fox-hunting organization, and was instrumental in bringing that group to Bluffton for a drag hunt.

The Beaufort County Council Redistricting Committee will meet at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Executive Conference Room, county Administration Building, 100 Ribaut Road, Beaufort.The committee will continue its review of proposed plans for a new map of County Council and Board of Education representative districts.Three plans are under consideration and the latest revisions will be presented Wednesday.After the County finalizes a plan it will be submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Civil Rights, must approve it before implementation.

Beaufort County Council Chairman Weston Newton was elected second vice-president of the South Carolina Association of Counties (SCAC) Board of Directors at the organization's annual conference recently on Hilton Head Island.Newton has been a Beaufort County representative to the SCAC for several years and was elected third vice-president of the board last year.He was first elected to County Council in 1999 and has been chairman since 2003.